The Puppeteer, the Double, and the Shadow
The Puppeteer, the Double, and the Shadow (El Titiritero, el Doble y la Sombra)
Toni Rumbau
Description:
Author and speaker: Toni Rumbau
Puppet performers and shadows: Toni Rumbau and Eudald Ferré
Direction: Eudald Ferré
Puppet construction: Mariona Masgrau (puppets), Nartxi Askargorta (double mask), Martí Doy (double puppet)
Puppet costumes: Paulette San Martín
Set design: José Menchero
Music: Octavi Rumbau
Drawings and shadow silhouettes: Clementina Kura Kura
Lighting: José Menchero, Toni Rumbau
Dramaturgical foundation: Luca Valentino
Poster photography: Jesús M. Atienza
Production: Sara Serrano, Thot Arts, If Barcelona
Creative residency: Can Estruch
Co-production: Festival IF Barcelona, TOPIC in Tolosa, José Menchero’s Workshop, Thot Arts
Funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Department of Culture
Who is actually controlling whom here?
The puppeteer controlling the puppet?
That’s the obvious answer.
And so it must surely be wrong.
Toni Rumbau has been involved in puppet theatre for over 45 years. After years spent writing about and researching this art form, he returns to the stage with *The Puppeteer, the Double, and the Shadow* – something between a performance, a lecture, a philosophical game and an initiation into the secrets of puppetry. There will be classic puppets. There will be shadows. There will be doubles. And a question that fits exceptionally well with a festival called ‘A Puppet is a Person Too’: where exactly does the puppet end and the person begin?